Who is he?

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Shved has an interesting background and grew up around football with his dad Vasyl also a professional player for various clubs including Karpaty Lviv who he played for between 2000 and 2003, scoring 15 goals in 76 appearances.

Shved junior started his career at Karpaty and earned a move to Sevilla in 2015. But his time in Spain didn't go to plan despite signing a five-year deal at the club.

He was sent to the reserve team to develop but played just once in his two years at the club, featuring for 11 minutes against UD Marbella although he was a regular in the U19 team in the UEFA Youth League.

Since then, Shved has turned his career around at Karpaty since returning in 2017. He has scored eight goals in 17 games so far this season.

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Position

The 21-year-old is a left-footed right winger and likes to cut inside but is equally adept at hitting the byeline and putting a cross into the box.

What kind of player is he?

If there was one player Celtic fans could look at him as similar to Shved in recent seasons then it is Patrick Roberts. That's not to say he is a carbon copy or will have the same impact but his style of play appears to be in the same mould. He's also similar in stature at just 5ft 7in and isn't the strongest player in the world.

He clearly knows where the goal is and has incredible power in his left foot. Celtic score a lot of goals from the wide areas and middle of the park and Shved would be another option in that role.

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But he'll face a difficult task in getting in the team ahead of James Forrest and even loan signings Timothy Weah and Oliver Burke who are likely to play in wide areas once Odsonne Edouard is back to fitness and Bayo Vakoun Issouf is available to play.

At 21 he's got a lot of time ahead of him and looks like he could be a good investment given his goal return.

National service

Shved has played for Ukraine from U16 level and was particularly impressive at U19 when he scored five goals in 14 games. He was quickly promoted to the U21 side where he made 12 appearances and is still eligible to play for that age group.

But the huge thing for him occurred in Novemeber last year. At that point Andriy Shevchenko called him up for a friendly against Turkey and gave him his debut for the full Ukraine side in the final 13 minutes of the game.

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With games coming up in March and European Championship qualifiers to come, he could be viewed as another option to get some international game time.

How likely is a deal?

With a reported release clause for foreign teams at €2m then he's definitely well within Celtic's price range. Add in the fact that his club's vice president has confirmed he is in negotiations with another team and was left out of a training camp squad to Turkey and all of a sudden it looks like there's a good chance this will be confirmed over the next few days.